often capitalized: the body of ideas, views, or aims of a utopian
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Recent Examples on the WebSuch developments were unimaginable during the heyday of techno utopianism—when Thomas Friedman and others were proclaiming that the world was flat, rendered indivisible by the internet. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 June 2022 Composer Anthony Davis wrote the music and weaved in various influences, from the grand mythos of Richard Wagner to the cosmic utopianism of Sun Ra. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022 Fire Island is a stock figure for a certain kind of gay utopianism, but Leifheit is attuned to the variety of cultural meanings that have been inscribed on the place by those who have visited. Jack Parlett, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022 Although Chambers’ stories aren’t speculative in the same sense as writers like Doctorow or Kim Stanley Robinson (probably the most prominent name in contemporary utopianism), that doesn’t detract from their aspirational power. Peter Hemminger, Longreads, 22 Apr. 2022 Commercial societies stress practicality, incentives, and the workings of self-interest, for example, thereby putting political tendencies to utopianism firmly in their place. Samuel Gregg, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 Similar trade utopianism was common among European intellectuals in the years before World War I. Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022 Such extreme utopianism will actually block the Energy Transition and turn the voting public against these vital but limited technologies. Jude Clemente, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 What Democrats refuse to acknowledge are the trade-offs that accompany their utopianism. David Harsanyi, National Review, 23 Oct. 2021 See More